Microsoft: 1 Year in, how's it going?
Hello Dear Reader, one year ago today it was leap year, February 29th 2016. So I'm a year older, the...
2017-03-10 (first published: 2017-03-01)
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Blog Posts
My take on presenting
This idea basically started from Andy Bek’s TSQL Tuesday last year #84 growing new speakers (https://sqlbek.wordpress.com/2016/10/25/t-sql-tuesday-84-growing-new-speakers/ – thanks Andy) and I have...
2017-03-10
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PowerShell: Managing Service(s) Using WMI, CIM and Get-Service Cmdlet
Abstract
A common task of any administrator is to manage and maintain the application availability by checking the various services status,...
2017-03-10
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SQL DB now supports 4TB max database size
Azure SQL Database (SQL DB) has increased its max database size from 1TB to 4TB at no additional cost.
Customers using...
2017-03-10
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Triad Developers Conference – My Debut
I did it! I did my first “real world” presentation this morning at the Triad Developers Conference in Winston-Salem. What...
2017-03-10
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TSQLTuesday.com
I’ve hosted a page on this blog that has all the T-SQL Tuesday blog invitations and roundups linked. I did...
2017-03-10 (first published: 2017-02-28)
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Determining the Cost Threshold for Parallelism
In the previous post, I showed how you can get full listings of your execution plan costs. Knowing what the...
2017-03-09 (first published: 2017-02-28)
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Metadata Hygiene
Those who follow my blog know that I write a lot about data quality. Measuring and improving the quality of...
2017-03-09
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Power BI and Excel options for Hadoop
Below I have attempted to list the various options for reporting off of Hadoop (HDInsight, HDP, Cloudera) using Power BI...
2017-03-09
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SQL Browser, what is it good for? Absolutely something!
Another great teaching opportunity landed in my lap this week. I got an email from a coworker looking for some...
2017-03-09 (first published: 2017-03-01)
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Blogs
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
Don’t Fear the Technology
By Brian Kelley
The concern that a particular technology is going to destroy the world seems to...
Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...
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RegEx Functions III
If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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